Twitter user @GreatIsTheWorld discovered something wonderful today. Over on Amazon.com, you can enter any make and model followed by “shirt” and the site will autogenerate custom t-shirts. We’re talking about any vehicle here. The results are hilarious, so prepare to waste time while you’re also laughing your ass off.
Autoweek’s Rory Carroll replied to the original tweet with an offering for Duesenberg fans. And Car Twitter has gone on a run from there.
You just type [Make Model] “shirt” into Amazon and they automatically generate the dumbest shirt. pic.twitter.com/OB6rQy7Lso
— Rory Carroll 🚗 (@Rory_Carroll) March 19, 2019
Did I do it right? pic.twitter.com/DWeFGNNvmz
— Alex Núñez (@Noonz) March 19, 2019
Checks out. pic.twitter.com/vhveu9gfvO
— Antti Kautonen (@julkinen) March 19, 2019
Go try it out for yourself. Share your best shirts in the comments below. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to buy shirts for all of my Mahindra, Talbot, Tucker, and Lancia-owning friends and family.
Sadly, there’s no shirt for KV Mini 1 owners. Weird…
Oh and if you want to buy actually good shirts, you can always hit our shop:
An old style returns to our t-shirt lineup – Mechanics Only is back!
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1987 Daihatsu Charade
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There’s something about the specificity of this [generic] shirt (really, all of the super generic ones, you know, the “Left-handed people named Olaf who’ve been to Branson, MO 3 times are the best people!” kinda shirts) that stands out.
It is true though, I am distracted by dogs, and also would be distracted by a Lada Samara.
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The syntax catches me too. Would the dogs be in the Lada, or just milling around it.
“Sadly, there’s no shirt for KV Mini 1 owners.”
Neither “American Microcar Tri-Ped” nor “HMV Freeway” combined with “shirt” works, either, which suggests that Amazon’s algorithm has a more sophisticated sense of what constitutes a vehicle than I do.
Our AI overlords are looking for a certain degree of interior space and reliable operation?
There are no KV Mini 1 owners, just caretakers to preserve them for future generations.
To the extent possible, at least.
The collective psychosis in such a marriage would put a counselor’s twins through grad school…
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The three best I’ve come up with are “Nobody is perfect…but if you drive a Simca 1100 you’re pretty close”, “All I care about is my Renault 18…and like maybe 3 three people”, and “Don’t wait for the perfect Hyundai Excel, take the Hyundai Excel and make it perfect”.
The first thing I thought of was the Hyundai Stellar, and the “don’t wait for the perfect…” one was the only hit for it.
Wow! In college, I drove a white 1971 AMC Matador sedan with blue interior. So naturally, I used it as my experiment on the Amazon search algorithm. Surprisingly, it returned this:
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Who is going to buy such a thing, if not me? Well, I may get it just for fun. It’s only $19.
um, not every vehicle – I’m always on the hunt for shirts for the MiSSus and was actually quite interested in this story – and not just for silliness in trying to get a Plymouth Cricket or Daewoo Lanos shirt.
SS, Chevrolet SS, 2016 Chevrolet SS – all of them will only return Chevelle, Impala, Camaro or Nova results. Stupid GM and their idiotic naming…
Take it as a sign that you’re long overdue on re-badging that car as a Holden Commodore.
Gotta limit those keywords to prevent hate crimes, especially if you can get it on a brown shirt.
Doesn’t work for Mercedes Benz 560SEC or CL55 AMG. Sad…
Guys, I have surely found a bestseller: the “I love it when my wife lets me drive my Bentley 4.25 Litre” TANK TOP
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